Sunday, 12 March 2017

Turing on networking features in Linux kernel

The first time I had configured the Linux kernel, I felt there was an inadequacy because it did not have network support and I couldn't use the internet. I turned on the support in the following manner:

First I removed the old installation of Linux kernel. On how to remove the old installation see here.

Next I started the configuration by running 'make menuconfig'. For details on how to config Linux kernel, see here.